Helen Paris

Dr Helen Paris is artistic director of Curious performance company. From 2011–2018 she served as a professor of performance making at Stanford University. She has performed at venues and festivals including the Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre, Taiwan, London’s Cultural Olympiad and the Sydney Opera House. Paris is also a fiction writer. Novels include Lost Property (2022) and The Invisible Women’s Club, (2023) both published by Penguin. She is represented by Greene & Heaton agency, London.

In Touch extends Paris’s artistic research exploring human biology in performance and includes the arena of ‘neuro arts’ which is radically changing how we understand and translate the power of the arts. As well as looking at the enormous benefits of touch and tactile memory, In Touch is about the intrinsic value of the arts, including their importance to both mental and emotional health, at a moment when they are being systematically devalued.